Biology:Epiphaxum

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Short description: Genus of corals

Epiphaxum
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Octocorallia
Order: Helioporacea
Family: Lithotelestidae
Genus: Epiphaxum
Lonsdale, 1850[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithotelesto Bayer & Muzik, 1977

Epiphaxum is a genus of extinct anthozoans in the family Lithotelestidae.[2]

Species

  • Epiphaxum breve Bayer, 1992[3]
  • Epiphaxum micropora (Bayer & Muzik, 1977)[4]
  • Epiphaxum septifer Bayer, 1992[3]

References

  1. Lonsdale, W. (1850). Notes on the corals. In Dixon, F. (Ed.), The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex (pp. 237–324). London: Brown, Green, and Longmans.
  2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Epiphaxum Lonsdale, 1850 †" (in en). http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267418. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Bayer, F. M. (1992). The helioporacean octocoral Epiphaxum. Recent and fossil. A monographic iconography. Studies in Tropical Oceanography, 15, 1–76.
  4. Bayer, F. M. & Muzik, K. M. (1977). An Atlantic helioporan coral (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 90(4), 975–984.

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